Garmin Jr.™ 4+
Garmin
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- Free
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Description
When paired with a compatible Garmin kid’s wearable device, the Garmin Jr.™ app¹ is a parent’s resource for keeping track of kids’ activity² and sleep, managing chores and rewards and encouraging 60 minutes of activity a day.
With an LTE-capable device, parents can also stay connected to their kids with text and voice messaging features. They can track their location on the map in the Garmin Jr.™ app, set boundaries and receive alerts related to those boundaries. Your kids will be only be able to communicate with the people you add as guardians, caregivers or friends in the app.
The Parent Helper
With the Garmin Jr.™ app on their smartphone, parents can:
• Get detailed statistics of their child’s activity and sleep.
• Celebrate personal records, including steps and active minutes.
• Assign tasks and chores and reward your kids for a job well done.
• Manage your child’s device settings, including goals, alarms, icons and display.
• Create challenges to encourage the whole family to be more active.
• Connect with other families and compete in multi-family challenges.
• Invite up to nine guardians and caregivers to your family.
• Send text and voice messages to your child’s compatible Garmin device.*
• Track your child’s location on the map.*
• Get notified when your child leaves or arrives at a family boundary.*
• Get notified when kids in the family request Assistance from their compatible devices.
¹Requires app loaded on parent’s compatible smartphone
²Activity tracking accuracy: http://www.garmin.com.en-us/legal/atdisclaimer
* To use LTE features, an active subscription plan is necessary
What’s New
Version 6.4
Thanks for using Garmin Jr.! We're constantly working to improve your experience. This version fixes bugs to help improve performance.
Ratings and Reviews
Great gift for a growing and responsible daughter
We picked this up for our daughters 8th birthday, we think it’s a good step into being more independent and responsible whilst delaying a phone (and in itself proving if they are ready for one in a few years) we enjoy the notifications and the challenges, activity tracking and sleep record. The UI is intuitive and easy to navigate and use. Our daughter is into sports (as is me, her dad) so she wanted to track her steps, activities, etc and this was a good step into the wearables realm. The subscription is a bit steep I think, but not much I can do about it, it’s a bit cheaper when you pay in advance. Battery is ok, but could be better, it currently lasts a day at school and she charges it just before going to bed whilst she is getting ready. I recommend it for parents who are looking to introduce kids to more tech but not ready to open the door to phones
Good, but...
I love this app, but after a month or so, I am not able to go into the adventure. It would just stay on the loading screen and I couldn’t get my moves. Also, even when kid mode is on, kids can still edit their coins, say they did chores even if they didn’t and edit rewards to make them cheaper. And how do chores work? Kids can just say they did chores whenever they want. It’s basically just getting free coins every day. Also, one of my main concerns is that kids can edit there coins. I suppose it’s meant to be secret, but what if the kids tap the button and go from 100 coins to 1000 coins. But my main concern is that after a month, it won’t go into the adventure map. I got three moves but it will just stay on that loading screen for the map and I would just wait like 5 minutes and then eventually leave the app.
I hope you respond because otherwise I will have to take extreme measures and delete the app. Then I’ll have to reconnect the Vívofit watch and lose all my data.
Please respond
Vívofit junior
This app is an excellent way to encourage and inspire children to keep fit and active. With the idea of having a reward when challenges are completed, delights children and only encourages them to do more. There have been no problems so far, and it has proven to be a safe, trustworthy app that allows children to have fun, and exercise at the same time. As well as counting steps, and timing periods, the Garmin also connects with devices and allows children to play mini games and level up once they have reached a certain amount of steps. Personally, my favourite part about Vivofit junior, is that you can set chore alarms to remind your children of when to complete a certain task. You can also pick an animal or emblem to represent the chore. Over all, Vívofit junior is a fun, creative app that encourages and inspires young children to keep healthy and stay active.
App Privacy
The developer, Garmin, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Health & Fitness
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Garmin International
- Size
- 368.4 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries
- Price
- Free